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By *good-being-bad OP Man
over a year ago

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Without central heating?

I'd guess folk of a certain age will have, I often see statuses saying wish the plumber would hurry up fix the boiler it's freezing.

Are folk softer these days less willing to live without warming every room in a house?

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

Yep. I grew up in one and lived in one as an adult. Ice on the inside of bedroom windows was normal.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes. Bloody freezing in the depths of winter and waking to ice on the inside of the windows.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes twice.. wasn't remotely bothered at the time. Look back on both places with fond memories!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Urm yes only had central heating once

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Without central heating?

I'd guess folk of a certain age will have, I often see statuses saying wish the plumber would hurry up fix the boiler it's freezing.

Are folk softer these days less willing to live without warming every room in a house?

Didn’t they have gas fires or coal fired in each room?

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

Yep, the cottage I grew up in! Windows frozen on the inside in winter were a regular occurrence, and damp walls. The house was a few hundred years old and listed so getting permission to put central heating and double glazing in was a nightmare for my parents.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes the house I grew up in was bitterly cold.

Metal window frames with ice on the inside.

Awful.

Even when central heating was put in my mum rarely had it on

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes. When i was younger there was no central heating anywhere. Just coal,gas and electric fires. We had a geyser in the kitchen and bathroom for hot water. I'm grateful for my central heating now days.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I still get ice on my windows when its really cold

Have always lived in bloody cold houses.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I live in a place now without central heating or a bath.

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By *edangel_2013Woman
over a year ago

southend

Place I live in now doesn't have central heating. A couple of storage heaters downstairs, but we only use the one in the kitchen because of the parrot.

Just wear a jumper or a blankie when watching TV in the front room.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yep!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes I do I don't have central heating I've got open fires with backboilers and an immersion heater for hot water when the fires aren't on.

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By *good-being-bad OP Man
over a year ago

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"Without central heating?

I'd guess folk of a certain age will have, I often see statuses saying wish the plumber would hurry up fix the boiler it's freezing.

Are folk softer these days less willing to live without warming every room in a house?

Didn’t they have gas fires or coal fired in each room? "

House I grew up in had a coal fire in the living room and a coal burner in the kitchen that heated the water tank.. any where else was unheated.

I have central heating in my house never turn it on, I heat the room I'm in, I see no point warming rooms, hall ways etc that I only walk through.

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By *hoenixAdAstraWoman
over a year ago

Hiding in the shadows

As a child I grew up with coal fires downstairs & a hot water bottle in my bed.

As an adult, we lived without central heating for 7yrs.

Rented property, had storage heaters, which cost a fortune to run. Had a key meter for the electric.

we moved in, in spring and up til then I'd been putting £20pw on the key. First week out the heaters on cost £80, woke up every morning like in a sauna & by 17.00 the house was freezing.

Bought 2 plug in oil radiators & never turned the heaters on a agsin.

Moved from there into this house 2½yrs ago.

Ex council house, which had never been modernised. Hence going so cheap!

Had to be totaly rewired, replumbed & heating fitted.

Our first winter, the novelty of heating was brilliant... Saying that I doesn't get turned on til Nov & goes off in January.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I just thought every one had central heating.

I’ve learned some thing new today

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By *uryWhipMan
over a year ago

Harringay

Grew up in a house that had central everywhere except my bedroom. My late teens I used to stay out as late as I could at friends houses, run home to put on layers and bury myself in a pile of blankets

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I grew up living above a 16th century pub, the only heating was from the open fires downstairs. The chimney breast ran through the living room and kitchen, that was the only heat for the whole pub and flat.

I now have my own pub, it’s 17th century and has central heating all the way through but I don’t turn it on upstairs. I just don’t feel the cold

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I live in a place now without central heating or a bath."

Dirty sod

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By *sGivesWoodWoman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL

Yes, didn't do us any harm.

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By *alcon43Woman
over a year ago

Paisley

"Without central heating?

I'd guess folk of a certain age will have, I often see statuses saying wish the plumber would hurry up fix the boiler it's freezing.

Are folk softer these days less willing to live without warming every room in a house?

Didn’t they have gas fires or coal fired in each room? "

No. We eventually had storage heaters installed but the warmest room was the living room where the electric fire was on.

I was brought up in the 70’s. Coal miners strikes and power cuts. Had to get parafin heaters.

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By *anana JoeMan
over a year ago

Sheffield

God no things shrivel in the extreme cold I wouldn't take the chancel

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

I remember getting dressed in bed, then going to light the fire in the morning

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No central heating. When i was a child we had a tin bath and an outside toilet.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes, I was 33 before I lived in a house with central heating. Pyjamas, hot water bottles were a necessity. Dread getting out of the bath, because it was so cold, ice inside windows and break the ice on the toilet cistern to flush....if the pipes weren't frozen.

As for whether the young have it better? I guess they do but it's all relevant as society is today. I wouldn't go back to it, knowing what it was like.

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By *eplicant JoWoman
over a year ago

Sussex countryside

Yes, my parents house. It still does not have central heating, just a coal fire in the lounge.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We didn't get central heating until I was in my early 20's. My dad installed gas fires on the landing and in my bedroom.

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By *VineMan
over a year ago

The right place

I remember staying with my brother in law during a particularly cold February in his in heated cottage. The water in the toilet had frozen in the U bend. I came down to find a frozen turd sitting on the ice.

I left that day.

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By *itzhallMan
over a year ago

birchington

No I'm a hothouse orchid

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes I rented a place with my ex, chose it because of location, price and size but the crux was it had no central heating. We thought we would be fine with heaters. My God we were wrong. It was stupidly cold. I live with my radiators on full blast now

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By *mber DextrousWoman
over a year ago

Devon

Yep and still do. As a kid we had a gas fire in the bedroom we weren't allowed to put on so in the winter would sometimes wake up with condensation turned to ice.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

My mum used to put the gas oven on in the morning and warm our clothes over the open door.

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

Yeah In the Country I grew up in.

Never needed it. Although sometimes needed a fire at night as it did get a little cold.

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By *ficouldMan
over a year ago

a quandary, could you change my mind?

O yes cold rooms, but

Now have central heating,,, but still sometimes warmer outside than in.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My house has none. I have an electric heater and fire in livingroom and blow heaters in the bedrooms.

Coming home after a late shift is like walking into a fridge sometimes.

I'm moving soon though!

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham

It's just what your body gets used to. I remember getting central heating for the first time. Felt like it was a god send.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Yep. I grew up in one and lived in one as an adult. Ice on the inside of bedroom windows was normal. "

I remember those days of ice on the inside of the windows

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

yes I even bought a house with no roof once

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes I remember the days of waking up to ice on the inside of the windows. We just had a coal fire in the living room, and a little Rayburn fire in the kitchen. I remember in the winter when it was really cold having to put our coats over the beds to help us keep warm x

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By *loswingersCouple
over a year ago

Gloucester

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By *loswingersCouple
over a year ago

Gloucester

Yep , up until I was 15 none of our many family homes had central heating . Coal fire , little portable heaters for other rooms if it was proper cold , and often I’ve inside the windows .

My first flat didn’t have it , my first two houses didn’t have it .

My current house does , and I love it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No central heating till 16...didn’t have shoes ...used to strap two slices of bread to our feet ...that wor us dinna. And in T’winter..we used ta toast it fir glip....we was ‘appy even tha we was misser-lable

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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

Yes where I grew up.

I was 15 when we got central heating

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yeah, one fireplace to heat the whole house, I've inside the windows. The whole 9 yards.

While mum lit the coal fire, we could use a convector heater till it got going, but only on the worst of morning's.

I went to my grans all weekend most of the time, she got up before 6 am and got the fire going

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

For a while, over 30 years ago. I slept in the airing cupboard..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

This is one of the reasons my dad left the UK for America.....

He was a boarder in London and complained the flat owners never turned on the heat....

Coming from Jamiaca this must have been a traumatic experience.....

I remember growing up , my dad kept the heat at 75 degrees in the house at all times....

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

Yes, seeing as I've moved nigh on 30 something times I have experienced

Electric wall heaters,

Coal fires,

Gas fires (one of which I spotted a rogue flame in the wiring, not bad for a 9 year old)

Radiators (mobile)

No heaters at all (Holiday flat, brrrh)

and twice

Electric storage heaters (bloody useless things)

I've just down graded from treble glazing to double

glazing in the last three years, via another move! Before that it was always single glazing.

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By *s_bettyboopWoman
over a year ago

-3

Yup, only just got central heating in my cottage in September and been living in it 3 years without. Just had 1 open fire in the living room to heat it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When I was growing up in the real austerity Britain,in the winter there was ice on the inside of the windows.We still lived OK.Soft lot now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Without central heating?

I'd guess folk of a certain age will have, I often see statuses saying wish the plumber would hurry up fix the boiler it's freezing.

Are folk softer these days less willing to live without warming every room in a house?

Ours hasn't got central heating at all, we've got a wood burner in the living room and our windows are open all year round. It's a middle Victorian terrace and both neighbours have central heating.

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By *opsy RogersWoman
over a year ago

London

Yep, loads of times and even with central heating, I was sometimes too skint to turn it on.

Most heating is shit anyway!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Without central heating?

I'd guess folk of a certain age will have, I often see statuses saying wish the plumber would hurry up fix the boiler it's freezing.

Are folk softer these days less willing to live without warming every room in a house?

My nan's house never had central heating run of a boiler, it was heated by a coal fire.

The rooms with the fires in were roasting, the other rooms were chilly.

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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago

West Wales

Yep, didn't put storage heaters in this house till 08, before that it was an open fire & woodburner with back boiler in the kitchen for water. Moving soon to a house with poor insulation, many single glazed windows & an underpowered central heating system.

Still, i've heard Welsh mountains are quite balmy this time of year

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Without central heating?

I'd guess folk of a certain age will have, I often see statuses saying wish the plumber would hurry up fix the boiler it's freezing.

Are folk softer these days less willing to live without warming every room in a house?

Yes I've lived in a house with no central heating. It's fucking freezing. I complained back then. I don't think I'm any softer I just now have the means to keep the house warmer. Why wouldn't I? It's a huge inconvenience if the heating fails.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Without central heating?

I'd guess folk of a certain age will have, I often see statuses saying wish the plumber would hurry up fix the boiler it's freezing.

Are folk softer these days less willing to live without warming every room in a house?

My nan's house never had central heating run of a boiler, it was heated by a coal fire.

The rooms with the fires in were roasting, the other rooms were chilly. "

And felt really damp. I can remember going to bed with so many clothes on. Fucking awful time.

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By *irestorm 500Couple
over a year ago

coventry

Couldn't beat an open fire and having the chimney sweep in x storm x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember ice on the inside of our windows when I was a kid.

Don't ever want to go back there.

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By *illyjohnyCouple
over a year ago

brighton

"Without central heating?

I'd guess folk of a certain age will have, I often see statuses saying wish the plumber would hurry up fix the boiler it's freezing.

Are folk softer these days less willing to live without warming every room in a house?

Didn’t they have gas fires or coal fired in each room?

House I grew up in had a coal fire in the living room and a coal burner in the kitchen that heated the water tank.. any where else was unheated.

I have central heating in my house never turn it on, I heat the room I'm in, I see no point warming rooms, hall ways etc that I only walk through.

same here

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Well my family was brought up living in a chest freezer. I won't go outside unless it's -10°c or below.

Fucking hell!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes. But that was because the average annual temperature was 18 degrees

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By *iamondCougarWoman
over a year ago

Norfuck! / Lincolnshire

Our farm house didn’t have central heating years ago when I was in my younger years! There was as much ice on the inside of the windows as there was outside!!!!

Coal fires were really lovely too

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

"My mum used to put the gas oven on in the morning and warm our clothes over the open door. "

Oh gosh yes, the wonderful gas oven heat in the kitchen! My Mum would pop into my bedroom and turn on a round fan heater for me to dress by, then it was run to the warm kitchen for porridge! We had a coal fire in the sitting room the evenings.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I grew up in houses with no central heating ... My first flat too. Was probably healthier in some ways.

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